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Big and Little Storytime

In storytime lately, I’ve been working through a six week series on the theme of sizes. It’s not really my favorite theme, but I’m doing my best to work with it since it’s expected that we all follow the same theme system-wide.

Sing: Open, shut them

(Okay, I do this song all the time for three reasons. One, almost every child seems to know it. Two, I can repeat it a little faster each time to challenge all ages. Three, my ESL families have it down now and they love knowing the words.)

(I include a board book or baby-appropriate picture book in almost every line-up because I have kiddos 0-5, but I stopped in this one to talk about the different sea animals for the older kids. It was cute for the whole crowd.)

Sing/dance: Goldfish by Laurie Berkner

Read: Little Pig Joins the Band

(Not perfect for storytime but so great for introducing band/orchestra instruments!)

Peek a boo Orchestra app

(I downloaded the lite version of this app and that came with 5 or 6 different instruments. The instrument plays first behind a curtain and then is revealed when you tap the screen. We talked about the sizes of the instruments and I demonstrated how you would play each in pantomine. The kids found this fascinating.)

Sing: 5 Little Ducklings

Read: 5 Little Chicks

Sing: Old MacDonald with animal “puppets”

(You can see my animals in the corner of the books picture. I gave one to all the kids and asked them to stand up and make their animal sounds when it was time. It was not my favorite activity. Some of the kids whined because they –of course– wanted to be horses instead and to be honest, I kind of hate singing Old MacDonald. I tend to lose my place in this song if I lose concentration.)

Read: Big and Little

(This is a really cool book where there are fold out pages and simple text, but it’s definitely more preschool-y. You think an elephant is climbing a diving board to jump into a tiny cup of water, but it turns out that she’s a tiny elephant. The kids were like, “you just blew my mind!”)